Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Map Pack is live and ready to play

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Just when you were getting tired of the game, here comes a new map pack to keep things lively and interesting. The Escalation Map Pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops brings four new multiplayer maps, a new level populated with zombies, and new playable characters to the game.

Sorry PS3 and PC gamers, the Escalation Pack is an Xbox 360 exclusive, and the release of the new map pack coincides nicely with Treyarch‘s Black Ops double XP weekend starting this Friday. The announcement also coincides with a sales promotion where you’ll get a 1200 Microsoft Point card for half off if you buy that card with any Call of Duty title. Essentially, if you don’t already have Call of Duty: Black Ops, this weekend would be a good one to pick up the game and spend some quality time with your Xbox 360 controller.

The new map pack includes four new maps. Among them are “Hotel,” a new map set on the roof of a luxury hotel in downtown Havana, “Convoy,” which puts you on both sides of an ambushed US military convoy, “Zoo,” an abandoned Soviet-era Russian zoo, complete with cages and plenty of hiding places, and “Stockpile,” a Russian farm that happens to also be host to a secret weapons facility.

In addition to the multiplayer maps, the Escalation Pack also includes a new “Call of the Dead” map, which introduces you to new characters that you play, control, and arm up to fight off a zombie onslaught. The map is set on a Siberian island, where it’s cold, overrun with the walking dead, and there’s little chance of rescue or backup. Just you, three other friends, and a ton of Soviet zombies.

You might be familiar with the new playable characters: among them is the legendary George Romero – who plays himself as a super zombie, of course. You and the other players in the map control one of four other Hollywood stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy: The Vampire Slayer,) Robert Englund (Freddie Krueger, Nightmare on Elm Street,) Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead,) and Danny Trejo (Machete.) Together you have to use your wits and weapons to fight off the zombies and, of course, Romero himself.

Black Ops: Escalation is awesome so far! A few minutes ago I came across a blog that’s giving out the Escalation DLC for free! I thought it was a scam until I saw the DLC code laying in my e-mail inbox. :D

I’m not sure if there’s any codes left, but if you want to give it a shot, here’s the site: